A Washington man who allegedly led police on a drunken 100 mph chase on Thursday will be allowed to fly to New Jersey to watch his beloved Seahawks play in the Super Bowl, according to a report in The Olympian.

Shaun Goodman, 42, was charged with eluding police through Olympia, Wash., in his 2000 Ferrari F360. His blood-alcohol level was twice the legal limit, police said.

But a judge decided it would be wrong to let Goodman's Super Bowl tickets to go to waste, after his attorney filed a petition reading: "Defendant has what may be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see his hometown team play in the Super Bowl."

Goodman will wear an ankle bracelet that detects from his pores if he drinks alcohol, and he must take cabs and public transportation when he arrives in New Jersey.

POKEMON OVER PARTYING

Players from the Broncos and Seahawks came into Super Bowl week with a mission. Peyton Manning hopes to prove he can still win the big one. Richard Sherman wants to live up to his boasts. And Nate Irving's gotta catch 'em all.

Camped out in Jersey City for a week with little to do after practice, lots of players have been heading into that city across the Hudson to enjoy its fine dining and expensive drinks. Not Irving. Instead, the Broncos linebacker plans to stay in his hotel room and play "Pokemon," according to the Wall Street Journal.

Irving, a Newark native, has been described by teammates as "a little bit weird," the report said. The self-dubbed introvert likes to talk to himself, hang out with his pet bearded dragons and play video games in his free time.

Irving said he won't spend his whole week playing "Pokemon," though. According to the report, he will also watch some HGTV.

SMELLIER THAN THE LOCKER ROOM

Mentions of marijuana seem to be at an all-time high as we approach a Super Bowl between teams from the two states where smoking weed is legal. But according to former linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo, the Stoner Bowl is not a new phenomenon.

Ayanbadejo told FOX Sports that on one of the first nights of Super Bowl week some time ago, the skunky funk of pot smoke was inescapable when he stepped out of the hotel elevator onto his team's floor.

He said he looked around for police who normally provide security, but instead saw "rent-a-cops" who didn't concern themselves with the after-hours indulgence. Ayanbadejo played in Super Bowls with the Bears in 2006 and the Ravens last season, and would not say which team was toking up.

A group that launched series of billboards that recently went up in New Jersey would celebrate the players' choices — the Marijuana Policy Project is running a campaign to promote marijuana as a safer alternative to alcohol, which plenty of athletes are seen downing in the days leading up to the big game.

'A RARE UNIFYING TRADITION'

Slate has posted another entry in its very funny "If It Happened There" series, which reports American events in the tone most U.S. news outlets use when talking about foreign countries, and it sets its sights squarely on the big game.

EAST RUTHERFORD, United States—This Sunday, the eyes of millions of Americans will turn to a fetid marsh in the industrial hinterlands of New York City for the country’s most important sporting event—and some would say the key to understanding its proud but violent culture.

Despite decades of exposure to the outside world through trade and globalization, Americans have resisted adopting internationally popular sports like soccer, cricket, and kabaddi, preferring instead a complex, brutal, and highly mechanized form of rugby confusingly called football. (Except for in a couple of instances, feet do not touch the ball.)

Read the full post for an interesting spin on a truly odd day that seems normal to the 300 million of us who grew up with it.

THIS BOWL IS QUITE SUPERB

There are some who proudly boast that they don't watch the Super Bowl — if you're one of them, please read this AV Club article asking you to stop — but if they're hoping to eschew football to take in some art on Sunday, they might be out of luck.

A number of area museums are featuring football-related exhibitions as a way to draw in some of the big crowds headed to the Big Apple for the big game, according to the Wall Street Journal. Gridiron-related galleries can be found everywhere from the Children's Museum of Manhattan to the venerated Metropolitan Museum of Art.

One of particular note is the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, where visitors can learn about the evolution of the "Madden" video game series over the past 25 years. And if you don't want to leave the Garden State, Barsky Gallery in Hoboken's "Art's Salute to Football" turns footballs into colorful sculptures and features two ex-NFL players as artists.